WASHINGTON – He’s been the target of Fairness Doctrine advocates…

Ex-Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed, verging on 80 and widely cherished as the grand old man of western Canadian politics, came out of retirement last week to warn that the country is about to face a clash of provincial authority against federal that could tear it to pieces.

It’s said that in life, timing is everything. And it could be that former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson’s entry into the 2008 presidential race, expected in early September, will prove to be timed perfectly.

Fifteen Christian families from a tiny community of only about 1,300 people are making plans to leave their homes and work behind so that their children will not be forced by the Canadian government to attend “sanctioned” schools where evolution is taught.

A government plan to use members of the clergy to quell dissent and objections to government orders during a time of national emergency has been revealed by a Shreveport, La., television station.

Twenty-two members of the U.S. House of Representatives - 21 Republicans and a Democrat - are urging President Bush to back off his North American integration efforts when he attends the third summit meeting on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America next week in Montebello, Quebec. 

(CNSNews.com) - The anti-war group MoveOn launched a campaign on Thursday to highlight the cost of the Iraq war for individual congressional districts. MoveOn hopes the plan will motivate the districts’ residents to petition their representatives to vote for a troop withdrawal.

Parody coin designer Daniel Carr has launched production of an “amero” coin which he is marketing to coin dealers and collectors.

To update an old Mark Twain (and Benjamin Disraeli) quote, there are lies, damned lies, and Hollywood scripts.

"White Immigrants Get a Pass; Brown Ones Do Not.” That is the title of an August 12 commentary authored by the Rev. Robert Edgar, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches.

Does anyone wonder where the Tom Hayden-Jane Fonda SDS radicals went? The ones who chanted “Hey, hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today?” and cheered on the Communists in Vietnam, and went into the streets to demand America’s withdrawal from Vietnam and became suddenly silent when our troops were pulled and the Communists proceeded to slaughter two-and-a half million Cambodians and Vietnamese? Well today they are the heart and soul of the Democratic Party, calling for a capitulation in the war in Iraq and referring to George Bush as Hitler, or perhaps merely suggesting that his mentality is fascist, while insisting and that America’s war in Iraq is a mask for conquest and imperial goals.

An extensive search of the available literature and archived websites establishes that either a fundamental incompetence or a basic political dishonesty drives those deniers who want to squash any public discussion of “NAFTA Superhighways.”

Suspiciously, Daniel Pearl’s widow is suddenly being lavishly praised by the Treason Lobby. Jane Mayer, co-author of the discredited hit-book on Clarence Thomas, “Strange Justice,” published an article in The New Yorker last week recounting that Mariane Pearl was called by Alberto Gonzales in March with the news that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had admitted to American interrogators that he had personally beheaded her husband and they were going to release the transcript to the press. Mayer wrote: “Gonzales’ announcement seemed like a publicity stunt.”

Evoking the Vietnam Navy veterans who helped sink Sen. John Kerry’s presidential bid in 2004, a newly formed foundation has launched a campaign to “Truth Boat” Sen. Hillary Clinton, claiming the mainstream media have protected her from incontrovertible evidence of illegal conduct.

In an e-mail to his staff, Seattle Times Executive Editor Dave Boardman reported that in Monday’s news meeting about planned story assignments, “when word came in of Karl Rove’s resignation, several people in the meeting started cheering.